Ireland u16 international Bradley Garmston certainly has the pedigree to be lightening fast on the left wing for Ireland and West Brom in the future. The Chorley born teenager has been rated as the second fastest 100 & 200m runner in the UK for his age and despite a promising sprinting career has decided to stick with football.

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TOP LINK Fascinating interview with journeyman pro Garry Nelson, ex of Plymouth Argyle and Brighton & Hove Albion The Ball is Round

Cool Man City comic strip, with apologies to Frank Miller Cheeky Chip

Excellent piece on the worrying health of Inter's bank balance Swiss Ramble

Top 15 pics of WAG Danielle Lineker in a bikini Goaly Moly

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An FC United fan lets off a flare at Gigg Lane

Gus Poyet's Albion sauntered to an easy win against FC United at Gigg Lane last night. So FC United vs Man Utd is off the menu, and I'm delighted, as the media shitstorm – the unalloyed romance of the FA Cup, glorious giant-killers, screw the Glazers, real fans etc.

You've see the film The Damned United, or read the book by David Peace that inspired it. The question that remains is, to what extent has the outspoken, charismatic and often times hilarious manager left a lasting impression on you?

For me, Clough embodies what I think of when I imagine English football in the 60's and 70's and he remains a true legend in the game.

Wolves tonight denied signing Said Berahino and explains: "Wolves HAVEN'T signed Albion youngster Saido Berahino. Rogue error on website by company who put it together and nothing to do with us!!!!" I'm really sorry if I have mislead you when I published the article about the young WBA striker signing for Wolves, but I did [.

The thing that's the hardest for me to wrap my mind around when watching Roy Hodgson's team compared to the side we saw for the last six seasons is how much less possession Liverpool's had so far. Watching a promoted West Brom dictate the play for long stretches at Anfield, with Liverpool only winning the possession battle 51-49% thanks to an improved second half (having less of the ball than Albion in the first), hammered the point home.

Liam Bridcutt was released by Chelsea on June 7. No surprise. Bridcutt, 21, is just one of many youth products who have failed to establish themselves at the London club.

Bridcutt joined Chelsea in 2004. His senior career at the club began three years later. The midfielder never made a first team appearance for Chelsea, but enjoyed loans spells at Yeovil, Watford and Stockport.

Football games on consoles. FIFA vs Pro Evolution Soccer. There was a time when it was all so much easier than it is now. EA Sports had spent all of the money for FIFA on the licences and seemed to have very little left over for the game itself. Konami, on the other hand, knew that with Pro Evolution Soccer, if you wanted something that felt like the real thing, you would put up with Merseyside Blue playing against Connaught.

Westbromich Albion: Roberto Di Matteo has my pick for Manager of the Year following 9 matches this season. The new boys manager has his side believing in a shot at the top half of the league table and the runners-up of the Coca-Cola Championship are currently in 6th place. Westbrom has been relegated 3 out of their last 4 experiences on the top tier, so this has been an unbelievable start.

Somen Tchoyi surprise for the derby « Express & Star Albion boss Roberto Di Matteo could spring a major Black Country derby surprise by fielding Somen Tchoyi as a stand-in striker. The head coach is considering moving the Cameroon international up front, who today gave a vote of confidence to under-fire forward Marc-Antoine Fortune.

Somewhat against expectations, this evenings Scottish Cup Fourth Round fixtures pass the various pitch inspections, meaning that all planned fixtures are set to go ahead this week. Inside Left brings you a wee preview.. Albion v Stirling High-flying Stirling drop a division to travel south to Coatbridge to take on Albion Rovers.

Wolves Women will play Sporting Club Albion in the Birmingham County Cup quarter finals. After winning against Birmingham Athletics with an impressive 5-0 (report HERE) Wolves earned the quarter final which will be played on Sunday February 7. Sporting Club Albion is WBA with a fancier name. Before that they will play top-of-the-table team [.

Gary O'Reilly is a former defender for Spur, Crystal Palace and Brighton & Hove Albion who now works as a commentator with TWI. He joined Kartik Krishnaiyer earlier this week, when he was interviewed for this edition of the EPL Talk Podcast.

Don't forget that the EPL Talk Podcast is the only Premier League interview and analysis podcast available for free.

Ah, the romance of the FA Vase. It's the last sixteen of the competition and somewhere along the line Wembley fever has gripped a small corner of Brighton and a small corner of Cleveland. When we get to East Brighton Park, which sits unsurprisingly, on the easternmost perimeter of Brighton, overlooked by the South Downs, there are two coaches parked outside the ground, one of which is a double-decker.

Date: Saturday February 20th 2010
Ground: Cantilever Park
Comp: Unibond Division One North
Match: Warrington Town 3 Prescot Cables 0 HT: 2-0 ATT: 164
McCarthy 19, Salmon 36, O'Donnell 89

Additional: Entrance £7, Programme £2.

There is something strangely appealing about a really bad pitch. In an age in which so many aspects of football seem to be so sanitised, there is something quite comforting a pitch with puddles on it or one that is completely and utterly devoid of grass. Colchester United have only been at The Community Stadium for a couple of years, but the pitch there is in a ruinous condition already.

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Without wishing to put a hex on tonight's result, it looks like it's when rather than if for Newcastle and West Brom at the top of the table. With nine points and a commodious goal difference separating the Albion and Forest, it seems that it'll be as you are for the rest of the season unless the Reds can recapture the form that briefly made it a three horse race.

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This weekend EFW will mostly be watching Brighton & Hove Albion v Norwich City in League One. I have very fond memories of watching the Albion beat the Canaries 1-0 in the FA Cup 6th Round in 1983 but become slightly less misty eyed when recalling my only visit to Carrow Road - a 5-0 thumping in the Full Members Cup, Second Round (South), on a Wednesday night, back in the 1989/90 season.

Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club, commonly referred to as Brighton, are an English professional association football club based in the coastal city of Brighton & Hove, East Sussex. They have played in the Football League One, the third tier of the English football league system, since their relegation from the Championship in 2006.

Though the season is over for the men of Wolves, Wolves Women are still fighting in their league. Sunday they played Sporting Club Albion in their last away game for the season. It was a rather scrappy first half where the teams cancelled each other out, and there were only a few chances. Dani Selmes [.

Steven Reid set to finish with Albion Might be worth a punt if he's listed as a defender next season, but it's more likely he'll be listed as a midfielder despite playing right back.

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So here is the latest from around the web on Friday 18th June 2010 including: Yaya Toure, Giorgio Chiellini, Bobby Di Matteo, Florent Malouda and Nico Anelka.

As the rest of the world is learning, US audiences do love football, er, soccer. In Houston, Texas, I grew up playing soccer in the heat and humidity on various teams of different stripes. We watched our soccer coverage on Univision and Telemundo, with an occasional game on cable or PBS.

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Brighton 1-0 Aberdeen (31:07:10)
Almost a year ago to this day, EFW - which is based in Brighton, well Hove actually - packed its drinking boots and headed to Aberdeen. After reading, and eventually writing about their 'Red Ultras' we were hooked.

It's time to consider the prospects for Wigan Athletic this season as we continue to work our way up the table. The season marks Roberto Martinez's second full season (well at least he hopes it will be) at the helm.

The most notable foray in to the transfer market by the Spaniard this Summer was the capture of Mauro Boselli from Estudiantes.

There will probably bee some 'extra spice' to the match tonight against Notts County, as striker Lee Hughes will play upfront in the team. For those of you who might not know Lee Hughes is an Albion fan and a former player in the yoyo- team down the road from Wolverhampton. He has admittedly [...]

In recent years West Brom have picked up the tag as the ultimate yo-yo team, proving too good for the Championship and not quite strong enough for the Premier League. This season under the guidance of Roberto Di Matteo the Baggies are looking to put that name to bed and they have made the perfect start.

Five games in to the Premier League season what have we learned? Chelsea are a class act, Man Utd are inconsistent, Liverpool are out of the race, and David Moyes' Everton are missing a crucial ingredient that they had last term. heading in to the weekend's matchups though, we can be sure that many of them will not go to early season form.

Had most people in Britain cupped their ears in a southwardly direction at just before five o'clock on Saturday afternoon, they would have heard the faint sound of cheering coming from the Withdean stadium in Brighton. In the midst of a desperate, crazy goalmouth scramble, six minutes into injury time at the end of a match between Brighton & Hove Albion and Oldham Athletic which was deadlocked at 1-1, Francisco Sandaza, whose previous career exploits had seen him play for Valencia's 'B' team and Dundee United, bundled the ball over the line to win the match for Brighton and send the Seagulls to the top of the League One table.

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Another great contribution from bwfcforum's dh1985

Starter for ten (or should that be thirty considering it's three questions): What can go up a chimney down but not down a chimney up? What always ends everything? How do you score a goal and draw a football match without ever having a shot on target?

We've got something a little different for you tonight, with the launch of our very own Tumblr page. We'll be putting videos, MP3s and links up on this site, hopefully on a very regular basis. This is starting off with this week's Video Of The Week, which is the third in the BBC's "Match Of The Eighties" series.

By Ollie Irish

With the Wayne Rooney shitstorm battering us all into submission, how about we retreat to League One to enjoy the relative calm of some honest football, in the form of pics of Brighton's big win at The Valley. We'll be safe there.

Gus Poyet is doing a brilliant job at Brighton: to thrash a Charlton side that previously was undefeated at home this season is a brilliant result and one that keeps the Albion firmly on top of the table.

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The Blues are proving that spending loads of money eventually works and the team is currently the lone club with 17 points earned and sit in second place behind Chelsea. With another crucial home victory this week the club can continue to separate themselves from the pack and claim their top four territory for the season.

This weekend sees us reach the First Round Proper stage of the FA Cup. Over 40,000 people turned out to watch the Fourth Qualifying Round matches, and there will be plenty of stories waiting to be written over the next few days. For our part, we'll be reporting on the matches between Rochdale and FC United of Manchester, Brighton & Hove Albion and Woking, and Southport and Sheffield Wednesday.

The dark clouds on the horizon look threatening and not just in the sense that, in the uncovered South Stand at the Withdean Stadium, we're going the get soaked to the skin at some point this afternoon. Ticket prices have been cut to just ten pounds and this has pushed the crowd for this match up to almost 6,000, but the nagging suspicion is that only the 900 or so Woking supporters away to our right are the only ones that really want to be here this afternoon.

OUR VISITORS IN THE FA VASE ON SATURDAY, 'ARMTHORPE WELFARE' COMPLETE WITH JAMIE GREEN BETWEEN THE POSTS HAVE NOT HAD A VICTORY UNDER THEIR BELTS SINCE THEY SCRAPED TO A 3-2 VICTORY OVER DINNINGTON TOWN WAY BACK ON THE 2nd OCTOBER.
SINCE THEN WELFARE HAVE BEEN BEATEN 4-1 AT FARSLEY, 1-0 AT WINTERTON RANGERS, 4-2 AT DINNINGTON, 3-1 AT PARKGATE AND FINALLY IN THE LEAGUE THEY WERE BEATEN 3-0 BY SCARBOROUGH ATHLETIC.

We're returning this week to a theme that we touched on a couple of weeks ago, with highlights from some of the matches played in the non-league game over the last few days. We kick off with a top of the table local derby from the Ryman League Premier Division that was played last Tuesday night between Sutton United and Kingstonian.

By Ollie Irish

Brighton & Hove Albion players during a stoppage in play in their FA Cup first-round replay at Woking. The match ended 2-2 after extra time, then in-form Brighton dominated the penalty shootout (Woking missed all three of their pens doh).

Gus Poyet's team will play FC United of Manchester in the next round.